Bangladesh evacuates 100,000

Bangladesh authorities yesterday evacuated about 100,000 people from the country’s coastal villages and islands with Cyclone Bulbul set to slam into the country, officials said. The Meteorological Department had asked local authorities and two ports to raise their highest alert, as the cyclone was expected to unleash a storm surge as high as 2m in coastal districts. Bulbul, packing a maximum wind speed of 120kph, is on course to make landfall near the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest.